Rodrigo Montoro

Security Researcher

Rodrigo “Sp0oKeR” Montoro has 15 years of experience deploying open source security software (firewalls, IDS, IPS, HIDS, log management) and hardening systems. Currently he is Security Researcher/ SOC at Clavis. Prior to joining Clavis he worked as a Senior Security administrator at Sucuri, and was a researcher at Spiderlabs where he focused on IDS/IPS Signatures, Modsecurity rules, and new detection researches. Rodrigo is the author of two patented technologies involving discovery of malicious digital documents and analyzing malicious HTTP traffic. He is also a coordinator and Snort evangelist for the Brazilian Snort Community. Rodrigo has spoken at a number of open source and security conferences including OWASP AppSec, Toorcon (USA), H2HC (São Paulo and Mexico), SecTor (Canada), CNASI, SOURCE (Boston and Seattle), ZonCon (Amazon Internal Conference), BSides (Las Vegas and São Paulo), and Black Hat (Brazil).